Just so stories, The Crab That Played With the Sea, sentence 114

And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and snapped them, and said, ‘I can eat nuts.

Who acts: girl daughter, Pau, I · What happens: pick up, sit, give, wave, open, shut · To what, where: Pau, palm, bottom, scissors, nuts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, The Crab That Played With the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl daughter, Pau, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 picked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	nsubj
6	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 picked	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 picked	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 palm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palm	det
11	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 hand	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
15	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 palm	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sat	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 bottom	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bottom	det
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 canoe	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 canoe	det
26	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bottom	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 scissors	nmod:poss
31	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 waved	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 waved	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 waved	nsubj
35	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 waved	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 arms	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arms	nmod:poss
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 arms	amod
40	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 waved	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 opened	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 opened	cc
43	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	parataxis
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 opened	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 shut	cc
46	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 opened	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 shut	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 snapped	cc
49	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 snapped	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 said	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 said	cc
53	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picked	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 eat	punct
55	‘	'	PUNCT	_	58 eat	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 eat	nsubj
57	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 eat	aux
58	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 said	ccomp
59	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 eat	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	the girl daughter	Pau		the palm of daughter's little brown hand		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	sit	past		Pau		the bottom of the canoe		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme in bottom=Location
3	give	past		daughter's scissors	Pau			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient scissors=Theme
4	wave	past	Pau	scissors			in Pau's little arms	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in arm=Theme
5	open	past		scissors				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
6	shut	infinitive		scissors				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	snap	past	the girl daughter not said here	scissors				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	the girl daughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	eat	can	I	nuts				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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